ENGLISH 10 HONORS BOOK CLUBS

DYSTOPIAN NOVELS

DEFINITIONS

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DEFINITIONS

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DYSTOPIAN NOVELS

THEYRE COMING BACK!

Divergent
The Giver
The Hunger Games
Never Let Me Go

DYSTOPIAN NOVELS

THE DYSTOPIAN TRAILBLAZERS:

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World, 1932
George Orwell - 1984, 1949
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451, 1951
Kurt Vonnegut - Player Piano, 1952
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaids Tale, 1985

ONE THING TO REMEMBER:

THEYRE NOT HAPPY.

NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT.

DYSTOPIAN NOVELS

BUT THEY ARE

Disturbing
Scary
Bizarre
Creepy
Sometimes uncomfortably familiar
Prophetic?

QUESTION

OKAY, MISS JOHNSON, BUT

ARE THERE ANY HAPPY
ENDINGS?
Possibly You

POSSIBLY.
IT MAY DEPEND ON
THE BOOK.

YOU DECIDE

BOOK CLUBS

OKAY, SO HOW ARE WE GOING TO DO THIS?

You will read your book in a small group.
You have tasks to complete throughout the unit.
NEO will have a schedule for IR days and other
odd days.

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BASIC BOOK CLUB LOGISTICS

April 25 - the day you will have finished reading
your book.
First book club meeting:
Plan and agree upon a reading schedule
Select roles for ALL upcoming meetings (at the
end of the first meeting, you should have
EVERYTHING scheduled)

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MORE BASIC BOOK CLUB LOGISTICS

This is a group effort: Make sure you do your share of
the reading and work.
If someone does not do their task for a meeting, your
group must do it together in class.
These meetings should take 40-45 minutes. You
should not finish early.
If you do, it is the Discussion Directors job to see if
you missed anything. You can also look for vocab.
and literary devices.

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RESPONSIBILITY AND CREDIT IN BOOK CLUB

If you do not complete your task, you will not
receive points for the day and will have to write
Miss Johnson an elaborate 1 (full) page creative
narrative explaining why you did not come ready
to participate.
You will have a chance to grade your peers.

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SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES AND PROJECTS FOR BOOK CLUB

Absences: If you are not in class, please send your
part of the work to a friend or someone in your
group.
Project: You will have a portfolio to complete
outside of class as a group. You will be presenting
these at the end of the unit.
Essay: There will be an in class essay to cap off
the unit.

REMINDER:

OUR BOOKS

BRAVE NEW WORLD ALDOUS HUXLEY

1984 GEORGE ORWELL

FAHRENHEIT 451 RAY BRADBURY

PLAYER PIANO KURT VONNEGUT

THE HANDMAIDS TALE MARGARET ATWOOD

AS YOU READ

PAY ATTENTION TO POWER

Who has power?
Why do they have it?
How did they get it?
What are they doing with their power?
What is the goal of the people in power?

AS YOU READ

PAY ATTENTION TO THE RESPONSE TO POWER

How does society feel about the powers that
be?
How does your character feel about them? Why?
What is societys motivation to have these powers
in place?

AS YOU READ

PAY ATTENTION TO LITERARY QUALITIES

What are the themes of your novel?
What are the symbols?
What are the motifs?
What kind of people are these characters? How
do you know?

ONE MORE THING

HAPPY (OR NOT SO)

READING, FRIENDS!
Miss Johnson